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... fragments of the thiazolium ring remaining It is worth noting that hydrolysis of the thiazolium ring of ThDP generates open-chain neutral species similar to and In view of the fact that the enzymes bind ... role of diphosphate in binding For example, there is a difference in binding to ZmPDC between the diphosphate and its alcohol precursor of the order of ã 107 The general trend observed in binding ... either as terminators of transcription (e.g in Bacillus subtilis) or as inhibitors of translation (by masking the ribosome binding site, e.g in E coli) or to cause mis-splicing of the RNA (in eukaryotes)...

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... on studies included for review in terms of sample size or methodological quality which may explain some of the heterogeneity On the other hand, imposing stringent inclusion criteria in terms of ... distribution of scores across the five dimensions of the EQ-5D [21,23,35-46] In examining the dimension-specific burden of disease among cardiovascular studies, the trend in the distribution of scores ... calculation of QALYs Increased use of the EQ-5D may also support the view that patient reported outcomes and quality of life are becoming more widely accepted as routine measures in clinical studies, ...

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... pocket of the peptide binding grove, carrying a cysteine residue at position 67 This residue is thought to be involved in B27-homodimer formation, potentially explaining the association of these ... evidence from studies of association of other MHC class II and class III genes with AS for the existence of other MHC-encoded AS susceptibility genes Pinpointing the specific genes involved is ... disease in that ethnic group This genetic finding has led to substantial research activity into the involvement of the TH17 lymphocyte pathway in AS Hitherto TH17 had been studied in mouse models of...

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... influence on individual opinion relating to new innovation The ABCD project team took an active approach to influencing the opinion of key stakeholders as a means of facilitating uptake of the project ... First, the role of expert opinion seems to have been influential in the initial engagement of senior managers, a number of whom commented on the significance of the research findings from the trial ... disease focus and an interest in being involved in CQI Successful leaders engaged staff in building a shared organizational vision as well as in making sense of what ABCD would mean in relation to...

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... training, maintenance, running the cold chain, amortization for buildings, ‘rolling stock’, and refrigerators) were obtained by interview, direct surface measurements of buildings, estimation of ... diseases This involves the introduction of new vaccines and combinations which are generally more expensive In this light, the Pentavalent vaccine, DPT-HB-Hib was introduced (in place of DPT) into the ... mechanisms of vaccine wastage but also to quantify the benefits of the open vial policy (reuse of open liquid vaccines within four weeks in the absence of contamination, expiration, Vaccine Vial...

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... of an ambiguous situation by getting colleagues and coworkers involved You may find you can bring clarity and definition by talking things through “Uncertainty will always be part of the taking ... manager reinforces these ever-present truths, the team finds itself being drawn back from the confusion of unpredictability and uncertainty Explaining what has not changed in a convincing, positive ... relearn.” Alvin Toffler Emphasize the obstacles ✓Seek the opportunity Here is an interesting exercise: Think of a change that is affecting your organization or team From the organization’s point of view,...

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... of an ambiguous situation by getting colleagues and coworkers involved You may find you can bring clarity and definition by talking things through “Uncertainty will always be part of the taking ... manager reinforces these ever-present truths, the team finds itself being drawn back from the confusion of unpredictability and uncertainty Explaining what has not changed in a convincing, positive ... relearn.” Alvin Toffler Emphasize the obstacles ✓Seek the opportunity Here is an interesting exercise: Think of a change that is affecting your organization or team From the organization’s point of view,...

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... mutated to N in order to see how the increased distance between the base and substrate-binding amino acid affected the binding of dThd and deoxycytidine (dCyd) Results Fig Binding of the substrate ... 1-(b-d-arabinofuranosyl)-cytosine (AraC), 1-(b-d-arabinofuranosyl)-thymine (AraT) and (E)-bromvinyl-2¢-deoxyuridine (BVDU) Mutants of catalytic residues: E52 and R105 It is evident from the kinetic ... Mg ion and arginines of the Lid-region stabilize the negative phosphates of this state The most striking effect of mutation of arginine to histidine is an almost 2000-fold decrease in the kcat...

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... lactis Linnaeus (Acari: Carpoglyphidae) was originally of a strain maintained at Tokyo Women’s Medical College The strain was maintained at 25 °C and 75% relative humidity, and fed a mixture of dry ... dehydrogenase from Carpoglyphus lactis 36 Bradford MM (1976) A rapid and sensitive method for the quantitation of microgram qualities of protein utilizing the principle of protein-dye binding Anal ... compound in the monoterpene biosynthesis of mites Neral is one of the most widely distributed mite monoterpenes It is present in 35 of 60 species of astigmatid mites examined, including 28 unidentified...

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... effects, including the suboptimal positioning of the amino group and the slower release of product In the substrate binding model of AspB, two other residues (Thr101 and Asn142) are implicated in binding ... role for the lysine residue in binding one of the two carboxylate groups of the substrate According to the substrate-binding model of AspB, Lys324 binds the C1 carboxylate group of [23] The strongest ... kinetic parameters for the AspB-catalyzed deamination of is most simply explained in terms of the ionization of a single basic group at the active site and the ionization of the amino group of...

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... et al., 40% of a sample of medical students in Peru reported lack of proficiency in the use of the internet [8] With the growing use of the internet to gain access to vital health information ... an example of a successful health informatics training program in a developing country AMAUTA has retained a high proportion of Peruvian scientists in the discipline of informatics in Peru Our ... informatics and; 2) training of trainers, i.e training of UPCH faculty members to teach an introductory informatics course to their own students Long term training is offered at the UW, where...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 17:20

... we are interested not only in the levels of expressed protein from a gene but also in the cost of expression Considering the cost of production, we looked at how introducing a new gene into the ... that since we are averaging the translation time in a window, an incorrect window size might in some cases result in incorrect identification of the bottleneck For example, if our estimated window ... to the popular usage of ‘His-tags’, chains of histidine residues at carboxyl termini of genes in heterologous expression systems [20] When using carboxy-terminal His-tags in bacterial expression...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 22:23

... developing countries This led to a re-medicalization of HIV/AIDS and increasing international pledging of resources (see Figure 1) The development of generic drugs meant the price of medicine had ... underlying issues cut across unequal access to treatment, risk of infection and likelihood of bearing impacts? Can we intervene in underlying drivers common in all of these areas? Perhaps some of ... support during the preparation of this manuscript None of these institutions have in any way shaped the process of devising, writing, or submitting this piece References By examining the conceptual...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 14:21

... corporate-sector line near the bottom of the graph means that businesses are actively borrowing and investing, resulting in a high investment rate Finally, for the remaining two lines for the general ... ranks of individual investors even in Japan, but most domestic investors had been burned by the bursting of the bubble in 1990, and were no longer interested in equities In contrast, foreign investors ... authorization from the Ministry of Finance for each new branch in Japan This requirement was eliminated as part of the "Big Bang" financial reforms of 1997, making it possible in principle for...

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2014, 16:20

... density loading can be achieved, because of the efficient π stacking It is well known that some of the anticancerous drugs are water insoluble Covalent linking of these drugs to GO via PEG linkage ... Waals interaction forces in graphite by intercalation of reactants Decomposition of the intercalate releases high gas pressure, which results in loosening and disruption of the π - stacking Consequently, ... to cover the defects in graphene sheets during annealing.74c Dispersion of unoxidized graphene in water was obtained with the sonication of graphite in water in presence of sodium cholate.73c,d...

Ngày tải lên: 10/09/2015, 15:48

... notion of ‘degrees of freedom’ ∼ N 0, σ / σ > 2.1 Representing f Common choices for representing the smooth function f in model (1) include natural splines, penalized splines and smoothing splines ... decrease in the bias of β with increasing df is explained in Dominici et al (2004) for the natural spline case and explored by Rice (1986) and Speckman (1988) in the nonparametric setting Dominici ... changes in the height of the mixing layer and changes in the trajectory describing where the air currently over the city came from The mixing height determines the location of the layer of inversion...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 18:20

... organizational learning: Representing and maintaining knowledge in an experience base, in Proc Tenth Int Conf on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, SEKE98, 1998 44 T Dingsứyr, A lifecycle ... methods according to the subject of study; in software engineering it can be either a process to produce software or a software product In an article on research methods in software engineering [30] ... reasoning for reusing software knowledge, in Proc Second Int Conf ICCBR97, 1997 40 A Birk and C Tautz, Knowledge management of software engineering lessons learned, in Proc 10th Int Conf on Software...

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... signaling is independent of Toll-interleukin receptor domain-containing adaptor protein Drug Metab Dispos 36, 95–101 10 Ghose R, Guo T & Haque N (2009) Regulation of gene expression of hepatic drug ... reperfusion injury [14] In our studies, we employed GdCl3 to inactivate KCs based on the findings of other investigators showing the destruction of KCs after the intravenous administration of GdCl3 [15] ... Several studies have shown that interactions between KCs and endotoxin comprise the initiating event leading to hepatotoxicity in liver injury, including endotoxemia and ischemia ⁄ reperfusion injury...

Ngày tải lên: 14/02/2014, 18:20

... phthalates were detected predominantly in indoor air samples.93) The dominant path of phthalates intake was the ingestion of foodstuffs compared to inhalation of indoor air by children.94) n-Tetradecane ... can meet local needs in dealing with SHS.152) CONCLUSION Healthy indoor air is a fundamental right for people studying in schools, working in of ces and living in residences Indoor air quality ... complain of similar symptoms of SBS occurring in its early history in people living in houses SBS is therefore here described as SHS A pilot study revealed that VOCs and carbonyl compounds in Chinese...

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